Custom User Rolls – Question

I run a site that requires each team member to be allowed to see his/her own content on a single page. Just for clarification, Bob Smith and Jame Black are on the same page but each need to see their own private text set by the administrator.

Is this possible?

Yes, it is. The administrator can add notes that can be viewed only by the intended recipients. In your case, the administrator creates two separated notes: one can be viewed by Bob only and one by Jame only. Obviously, in the post editing page, whoever is authorized to edit the post can read notes in that area, but not in the front-end.

Here is an example of usage (see the screenshots). After the screenshots I’ll give you the shortcode for you.

Let’s say we have an administrator that leaves two notes for users Aldo and Chip.

1. Post editing page (as seen by every user that can edit posts)

2. The page as seen by Aldo in the front-end

3. The page as seen by Chip in the front-end

Note. The yellow background is obtained by adding a simple CSS rule in the style.css file of the current theme. If you’re interested, this is the rule:

.private {
	background: #fbe5a2;
	padding: 1.2em;
}

And here is the shortcode for you:

[private role="none" recipient="USERNAME"]Text for username only.[/private]

where USERNAME is the name of the intended recipient. Change is according to the real username. Add one shortcode per user.

Let me know, please.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Aldo Latino. Reason: Added bold
• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Aldo Latino. Reason: typo

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~ Josh

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